I'm lost here...What "rules" are different in Alaska? Just packed up a Cub and sent it off to Alaska this morning that has a whole stack of approvals done by me, including a FA. When it gets up there, it's still going to be legal right? So now that it is based in Alaska, if it comes back down, are my approvals void? If I bring a Cub down from Alaska, why wouldn't approvals done on it be legal here? If it has FA's done in Alaska, would I have to redo them here?
Doesn't make any sense, I want to see where this is written in the regs.
Yes TJ, still doing FA's down here. I just did a FA a week or two ago, under what I guess must be this "new" system, and it was no different from any other I have ever done since the ICA's became manditory.
SB, You are hitting the issue right on the head. It's all about conformity to a certain standard. If we didn't have standards to hold all these planes to, we wouldn't have all these wonderful old machines still around to play with. Even with the current system, enough screwed up stuff gets done to these planes, there has to be a boundary set somewhere.
Tim, the things you think ar minor, may not be. What if your weld on headset hook is in a unsafe location, and scewers your brain in turbulance? What if the scat tube you relocate in the cowl jams the engine controls? What if your sleeping bag seat or reinforced floorboards jam the flight controls? What if your homemade fiberglass nose bowl ends up weighing 100 pounds? Maybe you would miss these things, but luckily, there is a system in place where some trained pro aircraft inspectors are going to have to check these things for you, it's called the current FA process.